Stream is a demoscene and digital art event held now for the 10th time. The party brings talented and creative people together to have fun and compete in various competitions.

News

Thank you!

19.5.2014

That was Stream TEN. And wow, what a party! Our twelve year journey really ended with a resounding bang, with record breaking attendance (250 visitors!), amazing compos and, most importantly, a hell of a good time. We owe that all to you, of course.

Stream will always have a special place in all our hearts, and for that, we'd like to thank all of you visitors, from recent first timers to those who've been there since our humble beginnings in Pirkkala. Together, we've built something legendary. Together, we've made demoscene history and helped keep the tradition of Finnish demoparties alive. May that tradition live long!

It's been beautiful. Thank you. We love you.

And we're looking forward to joining you for more beer and demos, wherever that may be.

Map

Arriving

The street address is Kirkonmäenkatu 15.

Bus lines 13 (Hermia) and 22 (Annala) can be used for travelling to the party place from Tampere city center. The bus stops nearest to the party place are marked in the above map. The bus ticket price is 2.60€.

Taxi fee from the city centre to the party place is 15-20€.

Competitions will begin during the saturday afternoon continuing until midnight.

Competitions are for showing off your talent be it a veteran or a newcomer so create something impressive for the applauses and deep respect. Alternatively just come by and enjoy the fruits of the hard work of the elites.

See the schedule to see deadlines and viewing times.

Stream is a non-profit event and all the gathered income after organising expenses will be paid as prizes for the competition winners.

General rules

Be aware that the competition organisers reserve the right to change the compo rules at any time and disqualify any entries for any reason they see appropriate.

Remote entries are allowed in all competitions! For remote participation the production will need to be send to us before the first day of the party. E-mail your entry (or url of it) to info@streamparty.org.

Entries must be previously unreleased.

Platforms

High-end

PC, 2600K i7 clocked at 4.3GHz, GTX660Ti, 16 GB of RAM

Mac, specifications TBA

Low-end

PC, Intel Atom based device without a discrete GPU

Android, specifications TBA

Amiga 1200, 060/50MHz accelerator, 64 MB of RAM

Raspberry Pi Model B

Oldschool

Commodore 64 with 1541-II

Amiga 500

Note: Entries on platforms not listed above are welcome, but you'll have to contact us about it before the party and bring all the required hardware to the party place. In case it's not possible to connect
the hardware to the video equipment, you might need to make recording of the production yourself.

Resolution of projector is 1080p. Everything below that is upscaled.

Demo competitions

We have three different demo competitions, one for each platform category listed above.

Video/animation competition

Submit in a format that is playable by VLC media player (MPEG4 h264 recommended).

Maximum duration is 5 minutes.

Music competitions

Two different competitions seperated by style. Very danceable entries go to dance music competition and everything else goes to listening music competition.

A preselection will be conducted by compo organisers if the number of entries exceeds 10 in one category.

Submit as MP3 or OGG with a bitrate of at least 160kbps. You may include additional versions of the track in other formats (e.g. in original tracker format).

Maximum duration is 4 minutes.

Graphics competition

Submit as PNG image.

You may use photos in your entry, but the picture must be primarily made of drawn or rendered elements.

Textmode graphics competition

Combined ANSI, ASCII and PETSCII competition. PC/Amiga entries will be shown with PabloDraw - Topaz for Amiga ASCII and CP437 8x16 for everything else. For PETSCII entries, please include a PNG image of the entry in company with the original runnable PRG.

Maximum width for ANSI/ASCII is 80 characters and 40 characters for PETSCII. Multipage entries allowed. No animations or blinking colors.

Photo competition

Cropping, color adjusting, small retouching and collages allowed.

Submit as high resolution PNG image.

This is preliminary schedule and will change more or less closer to the party.

Demos will be shown on big screen when there's no other program going on.

Sunday

Whether a scene veteran or a newbie who have just found the demoscene, we love nothing more than seeing you at the party!

Tickets

Please note that in order to attend the party you must receive an invitation!

Everyone who have attended previous Stream events will become automatically invited. New attendees need to get an invitation from organisers or from someone who has already been invited.

This is not to restrict anyone from coming to the party. Everyone is more than warmly welcome as long as he/she shares our interest in the demoscene or digital art in general.

The ticket price from the door is 25€ or 20€ if paid in advance, before 12th of may.

Accounts

Every visitor has an account in our intranet system. Accounts are linked to RFID tags and are used to identify you at the sales desk. At the sales desk the RFID tags are charged for your purchases.

You can deposit credits at the info desk (NOT at the sales desk) and if you buy tickets in advance you may deposit credits at the same time.

It is possible to use your existing RFID tag (bus card etc.) alternatively you can buy a tag from the party. Our RFID readers read only the unique ID of RFID tag and do not perform any alterations to its content.

The purpose of this arrangement is to minimise the need to handle cash.